‘A special place in hell': for young Sanders supporters or for Madeleine Albright? By Gloria La Riva Feb 07, 2016

I am writing as a working woman,
feminist, socialist, and candidate for President of the United States,
and I want to condemn in the strongest possible terms the outlandish
attacks by Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright on any woman working
in support of the political campaign of Bernie Sanders. This attack,
particularly on young women who are supporting Sanders in such large
numbers, is a shameful and opportunist attempt to use the historic
struggle for women’s rights for the narrowest political gains.

In a desperate attempt to reverse the growing support among young
women and men for her opponent in the Democratic Party primaries,
Hillary Clinton has enlisted the support of notorious war monger and
advocate of mass murder, Madeleine Albright.

As Clinton looked on laughing and clapping, Albright told the media
on February 6: “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help
each other!”

If indeed there were such a “special place,” Madeleine Albright would
most assuredly be going. And going along with her would be candidate
Clinton.

As UN Ambassador and the Secretary of State in the Bill Clinton
regime, Albright was a fanatical advocate of the genocidal sanctions
blockade that killed more than a million women, children and men in
Iraq, and of the 1999 U.S./NATO bombing war against Yugoslavia.

On May 12, 1996, nearly six years into the U.S./UN sanctions,
Albright was interviewed on CBS “60 Minutes” by Lesley Stahl, who had
just returned from Iraq, about the impact on the Iraqi population:
Lesley Stahl: “We have heard that a half million children have died. I
mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is
the price worth it?”

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright: “I think this is a very
hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.”

Albright’s astoundingly flippant answer was nothing less than a
confession to one of the most horrific war crimes in history, indicting
not just herself but all the leaders of the Bush I, Clinton and Bush II
administrations who were fully aware of the lethal impact of sanctions
on the people of Iraq.

In 1999, Albright played a key role in the war on Yugoslavia,
engineering the failure of the negotiations that preceded the war.
Albright presented the Yugoslav government with an “agreement” that
would have allowed NATO to forces to occupy the entire country, with the
unheard of provision that Yugoslavia would pay for the expenses of the
occupation!

After the talks broke off, a “top official” (Albright) told reporters
in an off-the-record session: “We intentionally set the bar too high
for the Serbs to comply. They need some bombing, and that’s what they
are going to get.” When the Yugoslav government predictably rejected the
ultimatum disguised as a “proposal,” the bombing began and continued
for three months.

Thousands of civilians were killed, wounded and made homeless. As was
true in Iraq, the entire population was traumatized, with women and
children most severely impacted.

Like the assault on Iraq, the attack on Yugoslavia was a war crime, a
“crime against peace,” the most serious of all violations of
international law, a war of aggression against another state that poses
no threat to the country launching the war.

According to her own words, Hillary Clinton joined in the war chorus: “I urged him [President Clinton] to bomb.”

In 2003, Senator Clinton supported invasion and occupation of Iraq.
In 2011, as Secretary of State, she was chief advocate in the Obama
administration in calling for the bombing war that killed, wounded and
displaced unknown numbers of Libyans and devastated the country.

After the torture and murder of Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi, Clinton laughingly told a CBS interviewer: “We came, we saw, he died.”

Albright and Clinton thus share much in common both with each other
and their far more numerous murderous male counterparts in the top
levels of the U.S. imperialist state machine. That they who have worked
to destroy the lives of so many millions of women would now presume to
lecture young women on “feminism” and attempt to shame them into
supporting Clinton is a despicable travesty.

1 comment:

This is the first time I have ever seen mention that Clinton and halfwit notbright were responsible for the murder of countless Serbs. Serbs that were being torn apart by the same factional silliness that caused Tito to forcibly 'unite' the culturally and socially opposite nations way back when.Serbia was facing a genocidal muslim invasion and Clinton and friends backed the wrong horse(as usual).And Tito's was the only even marginally successful socialist entity in the Warsaw Pact.

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